Opinion
Case No. 3:10-cv-378
03-27-2013
RHONDA S. PHILLIPS, Plaintiff, v. MICHAEL J. ASTRUE, COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY, Defendant.
District Judge Walter Herbert Rice
Magistrate Judge Michael R. Merz
RECUSAL ENTRY
This case is before the Court on Plaintiff's First Motion for Attorney Fees (Doc. No. 21). In light of the retirement of Patricia Ann Zimmer, the law clerk who has assisted with Social Security cases since 1984, and the consequent removal of the undersigned from the Social Security case draw, the undersigned hereby RECUSES himself from further adjudication of this case and directs that the Clerk randomly assign it to one of the other Magistrate Judges as Dayton for further adjudication.
Michael R. Merz
United States Magistrate Judge